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Ezra Klein, Vox: The only person who doesn't know what's gone wrong for Trump's campaign, it seems, is Donald Trump. None of Trump's errors were forced. None of his problems were out of his control. He wasn't buffeted by bad economic news, or a staffer who said something dumb on television, or a change in geopolitics that undercut his campaign. Instead, the last week has been driven by three characteristics that are purely Trump's: his absence of impulse control, his overwhelming desire to be and to seem dominant, and his tendency to lash out counterproductively and personally when attacked.read more

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